Editorial: NO MORE TESTS!

By Micah

Finally, the onslaught is over. After over a month of preparation, all of the state tests finished today, May 12, 2010. The state tests this year, like any other year, were brutal because of too much homework on top of test preparation. Over a month, there is a time of overflowing homework and conflicting schedules. The problem with this was that both tests were just one week apart from each other, three weeks in a row.

First came the ELA or English Language Arts tests, then came the math tests, and a week later were the field tests, a combination of both. All of the state tests, in my opinion, have a larger bark than bite. Their reputations are terrible, but the actual tests are not that bad. I think most students would be fine with just two weeks of preparation. Let me clarify one thing for all of the readers: THE TESTS ARE NOT THAT HARD.

Even so, the time of year during the tests is always a time of increased teacher observations. Even though the tests are not that hard, it's great just to have them out of the way, just because it brings all of us students that much closer to the end of the year.